Special Vendor Development Program was organized by NSIC Ltd., BO Cochin in association with DICCI & Kerala Chamber Of Commerce and Industry, on 20.09.17 with HOCL and BPCL. Shri P.K Sudheer Charter President DICCI Kerala Chapter was the chief Guest Of The event, Shri V.A Shasi Chief Manager HOCL and Shri. T.V Venu, Manager(P&CS) BPCL had brief about the Procurement Procedures followed by them. 49 MSEs had participated in the event.

A Special Vendor Development Programme for SC/ST entrepreneurs was organized by NSIC, Branch Office, Noida in association with Developing Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industries - DICCI North and MSME-DI AGRA at Moradabad on 11.09.2017.

NSIC, Technical Services Centre, RAJKOT, organized a Job Mela on 8th September 2017 at its premises. Dr. C.H.Vithlani, Principal, Government Engineering College, Rajkot inaugurated the Job Mela as Chief Guest and advised the participants to be more confident in facing the interviews and lauded the efforts of NTSC Rajkot in bringing the Job seekers and Job providers in a single platform.

NSIC, Branch Office Jaipur VKI Area organized a marketing workshop on NSIC schemes, National SC ST Hub and GST with SC/ST entrepreneur of Ajmer on 03-09-2017 with DICCI. In this event around 42 entrepreneur of SC/ST Category had participated.

A Special Vendor Development Programme (SVDP) was organized by NSIC, Branch Office Agra in association with MSME-DI, on 06.09.17 with Office of Development Commissioner Handicraft (GOI) Ministry of Textile.

NSICs Branch Office Bhubaneswar organized a Vendor Development Program with MSME DI, Cuttack, in association with Indian Rare Earth Limited (IREL), District Industry Centre and Odisha Industry Federation, Berhampur on 30.08.17.

NSICs Branch Office Kolkata in association with DICCI, Kolkata Chapter organized a Special Vendor Development Program at Salt Lake City, Kolkata on Sept 6th. The program witnessed a good participation of 36 participants all from the
SC/ST category.

NSIC organized the NSSH Conclave on 12/09/17 to have an interaction with various CPSEs from various PSUs and Ministries w.r.t third on going challenges in procurement .The program was chaired by Dr.Arun Kumar Panda, Secretary,MSME.Also present on this occasion were Shri Ravindra Nath,CMD, NSIC and Ms.Alka Arora JS (MSME).

NSIC (Madurai) organized a Special Marketing Campaign in association with District Industries Centre (DIC), Lead Bank, Dindigul District and DICCI, Dindigul on 31.08.2017. On this occasion Shri P. S. Prem Anand, Senior Branch Manager, NSIC, Madurai highlighted the benefits offered by NSIC under National SC/ST Hub.

Honble Minister of Industry, Trade & Investment, Govt. of Tanzania, Mr. Charles J.P. Mwijage visits NSIC. CMD, NSIC took them around NSICs facilities for creating self employment opportunities and apprised them about how NSIC promotes MSMEs in India and abroad. Honble Minister appreciated NSICs services and desired to have cooperation with NSIC for promotion of MSMEs in Tanzania.
Shri A.K. Mittal, Director (Finance) along with other senior officials of NSIC was also present.

NSIC signed an MOU with M/s.Power2SME on 29th August 2017 to further facilitate MSMEs in sourcing variety of raw materials like Chemicals, inks, Paints, Metals, Polymers. This MOU would facilitate the two companies in reaching out to the doorsteps of MSMEs pan India with an enriched bouquet of Raw Materials, enabling MSMEs to focus on their core business. The MOU was signed by Shri Ravindra Nath, CMD,NSIC & with Shri. R Narayan, Founder and CEO, Power2SME & Vice President, FICCI (CMSME) in the presence of senior officials of NSIC.

NSIC,(Vijayawada) in association with DICCI, Guntur organized Awareness Program on NSIC Schemes for SC/ST Entrepreneurs on 12th August 2017 at Guntur, (Andhra Pradesh). On this occasion, Shri R.J.S.V Rama Rao, Branch Manager, NSIC Vijayawada explained about various schemes of NSIC.

NSIC (Gurgaon )organized a Special Vendor Development Program in association with Young Entrepreneur Welfare Society on 12.08.17 with Power grid corporation and SIDBI .The event was attended by 50 MSEs.

NSIC has successfully implemented 459.90 kWp Roof Top Grid connected Solar system on NSIC buildings at New Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai (CAPEX Model) in order to promote Energy Conservation through renewable resources.

NSIC (Faridabad) in association with Palwal Industries Association organised a "Vendor Development Program" and program on GST at Palwal on 09.08.2017. Shri Kshitendra Verma, IRS, Jt. Commissioner - GST was the Chief Guest
for the program along with Shri Raunaq Ansari, IRS, Asst. Commissioner - GST.

NSIC is in the process of Transition to new #ISO standards and all the employees are being oriented towards meeting new challenges. A Training Program on ISO 9001: 2015 standard and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) (09-10 August 2017) was inaugurated by Shri P.Udayakumar, Director(P&M), NSIC.